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Mindwipe 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles

Also fun fact - subtitles did not work on the Wii at all if you were running a video streaming service!

The BBC spent literally years trying to engineering something that did not result in it being unable to playback video smoothly and failed.

crtasm 9 months ago [–]

Fast forward to 2025 and BBC's streaming app on ApppleTV only just added subtitles; vastly more powerful hardware but so many restrictions from Apple on how developers use it.

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